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From: Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me>
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Subject: Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:21:58 +0100
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On 9/21/24 13:03, Farley Flud wrote:
> Rust is laughable garbage.
> 
> Some jerk at Mozilla cobbles some shit together and it ends
> up impressing his co-workers, all network "programmers" who
> are the lowest of the low.
> 
> In time it ends up impressing a lot of other pseudo-programmers
> and then we get the situation of today.  Big fucking deal.
> 
> I certainly don't want that junk on my well-oiled Gentoo system,
> but it's got to be there thanks to one single entity: libsvg.
> 
> Yep.  I've got to install that entire Rust monstrosity just to
> build a single fucking program: librsvg.
> 
> What is "librsvg?"
> 
> It's another product of the "progressive" GNOME folks:
> 
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/LibRsvg
> 
> GNOME is the shittiest DE imaginable.  It resembles the dream
> of some first-grade art student who has smoked a few joints
> before class.
> 
> Of course these backward, security-obsessed, illiterati could
> never use C.  They need to earn their credibility by invoking
> Rust.
> 
> Fuck Rust and fuck all those that support it.
> 
> 

I heard Rust was good and had been meaning to have a look. But I'm 
happily using Gnome without the benefit of a few joints.